[astroAPhi]

I would really emphasize what AOII_LB93 said about COB. My chapter used to only rush twice per year. Once at Formal Recruitment, and the other time during a one-week informal recruitment period. Then we got 1 girl at Formal Recruitment and freaked. We had 16 juniors out of like, 28 girls (total is 40). We needed a strong class that year and the next year to replace all of those girls that would be graduated. Not to mention we had 5 seniors that year.

We had tons of COB events, and by the end of the semester, we initiated a class of 7 (much better). The next semester, we initated a class of 8. A few of them we got through our informal recruitment week, but we also got a few of them throughout the rest of the semester. We also had 2 girls waiting until Fall to be initated. We hit total for the first time since we'd been chartered. Now that I look back, it was absolutely silly for us to not COB as hard as we did. We should always be on the look out for new members, not just 2 weeks a year.

This Formal Recruitment went awesome, and we got 15 girls to send us way over total. We can't give out bids, but we're still holding COB events once a month so that girls will want to join through Formal Recruitment next year. We had 20 girls come out to our first one! It was absolutely awesome. We are very healthy numbers-wise now.